Author Michael Eves Shaffer

Meet Author ​Michael Eves ShafferMichael Eves Shaffer was born in1968 at Detroit, Michigan. Though out the years he has lived in many places, both in the states and overseas. He joined the US Army right out of High School. In the Army he served as a turbine engine mechanic, military police, and Calvary Scout. This included serving in Saudi Arabia for Desert Storm and Bosnia with the 4/12 Inf as one the first NATO units in after the UN pulled its typical failure. Out of the service he spent time as a bookkeeper, a corporate investigator, and worked in telecom before returning to one of his earliest loves, computer programming. While he was getting his degree for that he worked at a Subway. Since then he was worked for a number of companies, providing his software engineering experience. He brings all that experience and is driving thirst to read about almost everything to his writing. While his writing is science fiction, it is firmly based on good scientific theory. He has always hated reading stories where the author totally ignores how things are or actually work just to move the plot forward so strives to avoid those at all costs. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio. He shares is house with three cats (Tanjay & Izbit), an Anatolian Shepherd (Fafhrd).

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FIRING OF THE CRUCIBLE​Genre: Science Fiction Action/Adventure and Alien Contact​The Empire has thrived for millions of years with very little war marring the peace. It spans a large portion of the galaxy. Less than a hundred years ago the Empire found a young race, the Easlank. They were a race apparently recent to space travel but who consider all other life to be either slaves or food. The Empire decided to correct this view and help them integrate into the Empire. Your ship was the only one to survive The Last Battle. The High Court is in exile. All other planets and races of your fallen Empire lie at the mercy of ravenous hoards. Your last hope is a planet that was sealed away from the rest of the universe and used to try and breed the ultimate warrior. A project started over two hundred thousand years ago. Only a few minor problems lie in your way. You must get there without the enemy following you. A process made difficult in the extreme as they can apparently track Emergence somehow. Going there without direct permission from the Emperor means your mind will be wiped. Or you will be executed. Or both. Getting his permission at this point is not an option. There is also the slight problem that the project was terminated because the resultant race was too violent, too uncontrollable, with too much of a chance of killing their handlers instead of their targets. Best case scenario is finding a few survivors who might be able to slow the advance of the Easlank while your Empire recovers. The planet's name in the records means "terrifying experiment". The natives just call it Earth. And they definitely didn’t get the “termination” memo.May Goddess have mercy on your soul.

FORGING OF THE BLADEGenre:Science Fiction Action/Adventure and Alien Contact

The first 13 Omegas have been brought onto the alien's ship. The aliens have all the technology, millions of years of society, and a higher intelligence. Not to mention that individually, they are all older than the oldest Terran. The Terrans have what we have always had, wits and a wiliness to do what is necessary for the survival of the race. The aliens are going to be fighting to maintain control and their way of doing things. The Omegas are going to be fighting to carve a place in this new galactic empire that isn't just as a subservient fighter-servant one. And neither side can lose if either is to win.

ATTILA THE RUNNER - AwakeningGenre: Sci-fi Action/Adventure and DystopiaAt birth Attila was saddled with a name he could never live up to. At age 7 he was forced into a body he could never excel in. At age 14 he chose to commit actions he could never atone for. Unfortunately, much like his namesake, the rules and expectations of others weren't something he gave much attention to. Unfortunately for those others who wanted to force them on him that is. Especially since at age 21, he got the ultimate "reset". If only he can find the "On button" for all his new abilities.

ATTILA THE RUNNER -RUN TO MOORE TOWER​Genre: Sci-fi Action/Adventure and DystopiaAttila had little time to explore all the changes the Space virus had done to his body. An idle Runner was a dead Runner....but this next Run was easily the most dangerous one he had ever attempted. One doesn't simply walk into Moore Tower. In fact, only one real Runner has ever made it in and out of Moore Tower with their life.On the plus side, it had been he who made that run.

On the negative side, that was when the Tower was still getting its security installed for something that fit into his pocket.